Additionally, the dugouts are empty, and the game suffers from odd patches of slowdown. Less compelling are the crowds, which drop into low-resolution models a few rows out. Many seem to have oddly chubby cheeks, and the shadows create some awkwardly pock-marked appearances for stars that don't suffer from such obvious blemishes, but the players look and animate, by and large, well. The players come next, as they, too, are extremely detailed, from height and build down to their facial features. The first things one will notice upon entering a game on the Vita are the stadiums, all of which are lovingly rendered to scale, with accurate layouts. The issue becomes, though, that this feels very much like a companion piece to its full-sized sibling on Sony's home console. The game plays like its console release, which is important since it's possible to transfer saves through the cloud directly from one version to the other, should a player own both. The new mechanics, from Pulse Pitching to Bullpen Management are all here. I am happy to report that MLB 12: The Show on the Vita does not pare back the simulation elements of its PlayStation 3 counterpart. As someone with, at best, a casual interest in the sport the game represents (I was on my fraternity's softball team, for what that's worth), I was coming into it hoping as much for a primer on baseball as a whole, and this simulation in particular, as an accurate, digital representation of the sport. Cars were overturned (in joy, not in anger) and raucous cheering was to be heard long into the night.Ī game like MLB 12: The Show, then, has the unenviable task of both being true to the sport it represents and catering to fans' power fantasies (something the game's ad clearly draws upon with its simulation of a Cubs pennant). When I was in college in Philadelphia, and the Phillies made it to the World Series, it seemed like the entire campus turned out to march down Market Street, with an impromptu police escort, the nearly twenty blocks to City Hall. This sport's fans are some of the most devoted in the world, though. There are clubs in other countries, yes, with the game having risen to particular popularity in Japan, but the oddly named World Series doesn't include them. The sport of Wheaties champions, enjoyed nine innings at a time in packed stadiums, the diamond-like lanes and vast expanses of greenery hosting a sport that, to this day, is distinctly and almost exclusively the purview of the United States.
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